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...situation and developments resulted in a wonderful bit of applied mass psychology. It could not have been better planned. ROY F. CHALKER Yeoman 2nd Class, U.S.N.R. Macon...
Chessmaster. On the checkered face of the world, Times correspondents are chessmen. Chessmaster is short, stocky 53-year-old Edwin L. (for Leland) James, a veteran foreign reporter himself. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Virginia's Randolph-Macon College, he worked for papers in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Albany, came to the Times...
...look at the Metropolitan Opera's button-cute, doll-sized Brazilian Soprano Bido Sayao were the concertgoers of Macon, Ga. Day before the diva's scheduled appearance came a cancellation from her manager: "Reason is, she didn't like the travel accommodations. . . She said she positively would not travel in ordinary Pullman accommodations with the train full of soldiers. . . . I was powerless to persuade...
...Idiom. From her tenth year through her 19th, the most formative time of her life, Mei-ling Soong lived in the U.S. While one of her older sisters went to Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.), she stayed with friends in nearby Piedmont, learning the idiom and the point of view. She bought gumdrops at Hunt's general store with the other girls, and went hazel-nutting with them. She was always the one who was teased, but through the teasing she learned American gags. Later the girls went north to a summer school. A history teacher asked Mei-ling...
Tall, genial Frank H. Bartholomew, 44, is a newsman who has in his time covered for the United Press such topflight news stories as the William Desmond Taylor murder in Los Angeles, the Thalia Fortescue Massie assault case in Honolulu, the Santa Barbara earthquake, the loss of the dirigible Macon. In 1938 he stopped reporting, became a United Press vice president, in charge of the Pacific Coast area. As such he sat behind a San Francisco desk, sent other United Pressmen forth to Pacific battlefields. But Frank Bartholomew grew restless...